Here's what gets my goat. Walk into any American ER room and count the mexicans getting free health care. making your wait time even longer.

Sad.


Mexican MD's refuse medical care withut cash upfront!!
Mom says doctors want cash up front

SYDNEY — A Cape Breton woman whose son survived a fall from a sixth-floor balcony in Mexico says doctors there won’t set his broken bones without cash up front.

Carol Campbell says her son, Jason Campbell, broke both legs and his pelvis in the fall last Wednesday at a Mexican tourist resort in Puerto Vallarta, where he remains in hospital.

His mother says since then, the 25-year-old has been given only pain medication and antibiotics.

"My son is still laying there with broken legs, broken pelvis, bones coming out of his legs," the woman told Global News on Monday in Sydney.

"His legs are swelling worse than balloons, his eye, I don’t know what state his eye is in, his teeth, he’s bruised everywhere."

Jason Campbell was in Mexico with friends. His family admits he had been drinking before he fell.

His father, Wallace Campbell, says "all I know is, from the doctors down there, is he is going to be paralyzed for the rest of his life and as far as internal bleeding, they won’t let me know anything."

The family says doctors are demanding up to $40,000 to treat Campbell’s broken bones.

His mother says he didn’t have a health plan in Alberta, where he now works in the oil industry.

Now the family is trying to raise money to get him home.

"We have some fundraising going on in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Alberta," says Theresa Petrie, the young man’s sister-in-law.

Carol Campbell says she has turned everwhere to get help for her son — the Canadian Consulate in Mexico, the Canadian Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa, friends, family and politicians.

Gordie Gosse, an NDP member of the Nova Scotia legislature, says it’s a sad situation.

"We have a Canadian citizen that’s stuck in a foreign country in very severely, bad shape at this time and needs medical attention right away — and has been injured now for almost a week, and has no medical attention."

California passed a law that excluded illegal immigrants from receiving medical attention...

it was ruled unconstitutional...

not much you can do at this point...

sox

Was in the ER last week. You know what? People from all different races and backgrounds in there. The problem is not the "Mexicans," but the fact that health insurance in this country is a national disaster. It's expensive and it does not cover what it should. A lot of people who work very hard do not have coverage, so their only option is to go the ER, a place where they know they will not be turned away.

That article you posted has nothing to do with the problem as it exists in the US. I don't see any mention of Mexican immigrants in the US trying to get health care.

Many companies offer travel health insurance -- perhaps that young man's family should have considered it in case something like this were to happen.

So take your ultra-right wing sterotypes and shove them up your ***, mikeydope.

Cor,
He's just justifying his ethnocentrism (among other things.)

......eloquently said Coriolanus....

I went to Mexico once and I said that I would never go back again.

LOTS of people use the hospital ER as their personal doctor's office, or the doctors there as their primary care physicians, and it is a byproduct of the system that is absolutely suffocating hospitals...it's not simply Mexicans, it's anyone of few financial means who takes advantage of those services.

ILLEGAL aliens are the ones who are driving up our health care costs.

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Originally posted by punched:
ILLEGAL aliens are the ones who are driving up our health care costs.

Oh, so they are the reason medications are insanely expensive? And why insurance costs are so high for doctors?

Please.